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Founder of industry publication Blockchain News (EST 2015), a partner at ICO/STO/IEO consulting company Token.Agency, director of education outfit Blockchain Partners (Oracle Partner) - Richard Kastelein is a Canadian award-winning publisher and entrepreneur. He sits on the advisory boards of a dozen Blockchain startups and has written 2000+ articles on Blockchain technology at Blockchain News and published on ICOs in Harvard Business Review and Venturebeat.

He holds an honorary Ph.D. and is Chair Professor at Jiangxi Ahead Institute of Software and Technology (Blockchain Faculty) in China.

He's a Canadian (Dutch/Irish/English/Metis) whose writing career has ranged from the Canadian Native Press (Arctic) to the Caribbean and Europe. He's written for Harvard Business Review, Wired, Venturebeat, The Guardian - and has been translated into Dutch, Greek, Polish, German and French.

Kastelein has spoken and shared intelligence on Blockchain in Amsterdam, Antwerp, Barcelona, Beijing, Brussels, Bucharest, Dubai, Eindhoven, Gdansk, Groningen, the Hague, Helsinki, Kuwait, Linz, London.

A journalist by trade, an entrepreneur and adventurer at heart, Kastelein's professional career has ranged from political publishing to TV technology, boatbuilding to judging startups, skippering yachts to a stint as a restaurant reviewer in the Caribbean and more as he's travelled for nearly 30 years as a Canadian expatriate living around the world.

He sailed around the world on small yachts and wrote a series of travel articles called, "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Seas' travelling by hitching rides on yachts (1989) in travel and yachting publications. He currently lives in Haren, NL where he's raising three teenage daughters with his wife and sailing partner, Wieke Beenen.